Thesaurus results for FOLKTALE

folktale

noun

as in tale

a traditional description of imaginary events circulated orally among a people West African folktales that continue to be passed from generation to generation through storytelling

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Recent Examples of folktale To keep her on track, Hero tells Cherry stories each night, loosely adapting the framework of the classic collection of Arabic folktales One Thousand and One Nights. —

Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025 Atmospheric principles and folktales, spirit and substance, opposites and inversions. —

Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 The story centered on a young Palestinian man living in Jerusalem who must save his family after a Ghouleh, a female demon from his grandmother’s folktales, arrive in his town and threatens his home. —

Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025 Oliver Park’s directorial debut is based on the Jewish folktale about the female demon Abyzou, which (believe it or not) happens to be perfect fodder for a horror film set at a Hasidic funeral home in Brooklyn. —

Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for folktale

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This spiritual sequel to ‘Frankenstein’ is a romantic tale of obsession, possession and fantasy — adjectives that also apply to its filmmaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who expends massive quantities of energy jolting it to life.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
The romantic tale, of one kind of choice, is nested in a dramatic frame, of another choice, that’s at once local and international.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026